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Master overview (PHASE4_1_PREPRODUCTION_HARDENING.md) covering all 27
substantive items, plus REMOTE_AND_SELF_PACED_ARCHITECTURE.md (reviews
what already works for remote/self-paced delivery - student-driven
provisioning, cohort-less students, idle-reaper-destroy-then-continue -
and the one real gap: student authentication, explicitly Phase 5 scope,
not built here).

Updated PRODUCTION_NETWORK_SECURITY.md (the Gateway-to-Lab gap is now
RESOLVED, with the full design writeup and a new control-plane-vs-data-plane
section), PRODUCTION_DEPLOYMENT.md (four-cert TLS bundle),
PRODUCTION_VALIDATION_CHECKLIST.md (Router mTLS check, admission control
checks), PHASE4_PRODUCTION_INFRASTRUCTURE.md and ENGINEERING_SOP.md and
LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md (stale 'known gap' pointers updated to point at the
resolution), BACKUP_DR.md (destructive drill), README.md and
platform/README.md (Phase 4.1 pointers, lab-router component, updated
known-limitations).

Also fixes a real pre-existing bug found while auditing what gets
committed: infra/.gitignore's patterns were written repo-root-relative
(e.g. "infra/terraform/...") but the file lives in infra/, so git resolved
them relative to THAT directory and none of them ever matched anything -
a real .terraform/ provider cache showed up as untracked when it should
have been ignored. Fixed by dropping the redundant leading "infra/" from
every pattern.

Status: PHASE 4.1 COMPLETE / PRE-PRODUCTION HARDENING COMPLETE / READY FOR
HARDWARE DEPLOYMENT.
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@@ -196,8 +196,11 @@ Production topology and what's built vs. not yet: `docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md`,
The production infrastructure package (Proxmox/Ansible/Terraform/firewall/monitoring/backup/CI)
that runs all of this on real hardware lives in `infra/` — see
`docs/PHASE4_PRODUCTION_INFRASTRUCTURE.md`. Built and locally validated now; deployment is
pending purchase of the target Hetzner dedicated server.
`docs/PHASE4_PRODUCTION_INFRASTRUCTURE.md` and `docs/PHASE4_1_PREPRODUCTION_HARDENING.md` (the
Gateway-to-Lab cross-VM routing fix, plus application hardening — real pagination, abandonment
handling, a Postgres-backed rate limiter, a structured assessment editor, admission control).
Built and locally validated now; deployment is pending purchase of the target Hetzner dedicated
server.
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